Pakistan

Government of Pakistan has announced the award of Hilal e Imtiaz to Pakistani-American oil business tycoon Mr.Javaid Anwar Houston: (Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada) The Government of Pakistan has announced the award of Hilal e Imtiaz to Mr.Javaid Anwar, a renowned Pakistani-American oil business tycoon from Texas, for his valuable services in various fields including Pak-US relations. This highest honor is …

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) scrutiny committee has again deferred the decision on summoning account details of four paid employees of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) who had been authorised to collect party donations in and outside the country. The panel met again on Thursday to scrutinise the PTI’s foreign funding. The process has been going on since …

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Spea­­ker Asad Qaiser on Thursday sent letters to parliamentary leaders of all parties in the house, informing them about a decision taken by him after consultation with Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani about formation of a parliamentary committee to carry out electoral reforms. The letter with the subject “Appo­i­ntment of Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms”, written by a …

GILGIT: A two-member Pakistani expedition of Sirbaz Khan and Abdul Joshi from Gilgit-Baltistan left for Nepal on Thursday to scale Annapurna (8091 metres) peak. The expedition has dedicated this adventure to late Mohammad Ali Sadpara who lost his life on K2 in February this year. The team leader Sirbaz Khan and member Abdul Joshi from Hunza district of GB and …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday gave the go-ahead to the federal government to implement its decision on discontinuing gas supply to captive power plants (CPPs), saying the judicial oversight in economic decision making could be detrimental to public interest. Hearing a petition filed by 61 textile companies, the IHC chief justice withdrew …

ISLAMABAD: In a security breach at one of the entry points to the Diplomatic Enclave, a man grabbed an official gun from the police picket and opened fire into the air on Thursday. Police officers told Dawn on condition of anonymity that a sub-inspector and a constable caught the man at Gate No 1 after he opened four shots into the air …

LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday reopened another inquiry into land purchase by PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz and summoned her on March 26. The PML-N has alleged that NAB got active against Maryam Nawaz at the behest of Prime Minister Imran Khan and his adviser Shahzad Akbar to silence her voice. The bureau had already called Ms Nawaz …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday granted leave to appeal to a petition filed on behalf of Prime Minister Imran Khan against a declaration that Akbar S. Babar — a founding but dissident member of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) — is still a member of the party. Headed by Justice Mushir Alam, the two-judge Supreme Court bench, of which …

SUKKUR: The membership of two Sindh Assembly lawmakers was suspended by the Sindh High Court’s Sukkur bench on a petition about dog-bite incidents in their constituencies on Thursday. The court issued written orders about dog-bite incidents in two constituencies — Ratodero and Jamshoro — and not supervising campaign to kill stray dogs and growing cases of dog-bite incidents in these …

• Govt amends policy on price of shots imported privately • NCOC warns of closing businesses if people continue to ignore SOPs • Prime minister receives jab ISLAMABAD: While the current year’s highest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day was reported on Thursday, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on the pandemic expressed concern on disregard for …